On Saturday morning, I got off to a later start than is usual on my road trips but felt great. This was the view from the deck outside my room, #16, at 07:25. I wouldn’t hesitate to stay at the Round-Up Motel again. I had asked the motel owner...

I returned home at midnight Monday from a 4-day drive up from Vancouver, with a U-Haul belonging to a friend who has moved to Whitehorse (I drove her car up in 2 days last October). To make things easy at home for Cathy, I arranged to do this trip...

It’s been over a month now since I’ve posted anything about what’s going on, so here’s a bit of catching up. Our new puppy, Bella, has been the focus of my life the past few weeks. I seldom look at her without smiling – it’s hard to believe what...

For two weeks I’d been keeping an eye on the weather forecast for my planned return route via Highways 16 and 37, the Yellowhead and Stewart-Cassiar. They’d been very good until the day before I left Hinton, when things started to turn bad. When I went to bed last...

I got home from my 18-day adventure at noon yesterday, and today is catch-up day in many ways. To start with, some photos of the first day of the drive home – from Hinton to Smithers along Highway 16. This was the planned route home. As you’ll see in...

Yesterday was my last full free day to explore from Hinton, so I decided to get away early (well before 09:00) and see what else I could find around Jasper. I’m finally confident in my identification of this mountain as Roche à Perdrix, which is 2,135 meters (7,005 feet)...

This is Part 2 of a post about a day trip to Jasper that turned out exceptionally well. I reached the top of Maligne Canyon at 2:20 pm, but I’d been here before probably 30 years ago and figured that an hour would be lots of time to see...

The weather the past few days has fairly consistently been better than forecast, so just after 11:00 am yesterday, I hit the road again, headed for Jasper generally but with no specific plans. The Hinton CN Rail station is just about 5 minutes from the house. I was hoping...

Well, I had planned to stay home yesterday, but when I saw sunshine instead of the forecast clouds at Hinton, those plans changed. I started driving west with the intention of making it a short day in Jasper in case the snow arrived, but as I neared the junction...

There’s a bit more about last night’s drive that I want to tell you about, but it doesn’t belong in the main article. I was watching the weather forecast all day yesterday, and when I made the decision to go, it wasn’t very good, calling for wind and 2-4...